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Category: Nonfiction

January 2, 2020

Review: The Growth Delusion, David Pilling

Rating: 5 out of 5 The question Mr Pilling considers here is a very straightforward one, and it is whether our statistics represents the…

November 21, 2019

Review: At Home, Bill Bryson

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Let me be frank — I like Mr Bryson’s works. Yet, a quick summary of this one would be…

November 10, 2019

Review: Lost Worlds of South America, Edwin Barnhart

Rating: 2 out of 5 “While the accepted belief about this topic is this, I think that that is actually more correct.” In this…

November 8, 2019

Review: The Adventure of English, Melvyn Bragg

Rating: 2.5 out of 5 It would not be fair to say that I utterly disliked this book. What made me dislike this was…

November 3, 2019

Review: A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson

Rating: 5 out of 5 I loved this. The Appalachian Trail is probably a hiker’s dream — not only the (undetermined) length of walking…

November 1, 2019

Review: Factfulness, Hans Rosling

Rating: 5 out of 5 I am taken aback and struck by the truthfulness that comes through every word of Mr Rosling’s. He is…

October 7, 2019

Review: Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson

Rating: 5 out of 5 Mr Bryson seems to capture the perfect image from Great Britain (he does not speak of Ireland) in this…

September 23, 2019

Arvustus: Aktsiatega rikkaks saamise õpik, Jaak Roosaare

Hinnang: 4 / 5 Raske on kirjutada raamatut, mis ei vanane kiiresti, eriti kui eesmärgiks on vaadata üle finantsturud. Probleemiks siin on kahtlemata nii…

September 20, 2019

Review: How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong, James O’Brien

Rating: 4 out of 5 I like listening to James O’Brien. He’s a frequent backdrop to whatever I’m doing, if the timing works out…

August 7, 2019

Review: The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Rating: 4 out of 5 So… This was interesting throughout, I can’t deny that. Of course, a lot of the content seemed to be…

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